Beautiful. And important. The damage that president Bush has done to the delicate but vital boundary between religion and politics is one reason I cannot support him for another term. He is simply playing with a terrible fire with good intentions but fateful consequences.
There is no "delicate or vital boundary" between religion and politics, not in the history of this country with the exception of the Clinton years and look what that meant.
The separation of Church and State is a division the Left would like to see to avoid any higher authority than the State. In his heart Sullivan knows this, he just can't reconcile any principled morality he considers opposed to his desired lifestyle. Maybe Sullivan didn't notice, but the most spontaneous reaction of that crowd tonight was to the religious bits Sullivan considers irrelevant in public discourse. They were hungry for it. They were starved for it.
There was not a single other thing Sullivan liked in the speech, especially not the grown up parts of the job of president like having a foreign policy or having a clear, unambiguous, realistic health plan. Kerry's real appeal to Sullivan was for the call for unity and diversity Sullivan craves.
He liked the non-grownup parts. Sullivan is disappointing.
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